BP workers shovel oil and sand along a 700-yard long strip of oil that washed up on the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Friday. Dave Martin/AP hide caption

Karim Wasfi conducts the Iraqi National Symphony, with American Llewellyn Kingman Sanchez Werner on piano. Susannah George/NPR hide caption

John Wooden sits with his wife, Nell, in 1948. The UCLA coach known as the Wizard of Westwood has died. AP hide caption

Scott Simon caught up with statistician-turned-sculptor Edward Tufte at ET Modern, his new art gallery in New York. Thomas Pierce/NPR hide caption

Zuill Bailey plays his Baroque-era cello. Courtesy of the artist hide caption